Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

A reconstructed farm shows what life was like in Norway 1,500 years ago.

One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.